Army Reports Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security
Noah Shachtman, Wired News
According to documents released through an EFF lawsuit against the Army and Defense Department, soldier journalists post far less information that could harm military operations than official .mil websites do. These documents called into question the need for new restrictions on soldiers' online speech, which some critics fear will cause military bloggers to cut back on their posts or shut down their sites altogether.
For years, the military has been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post material far more potentially harmful than anything found on a individual's blog.
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The results were obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, after the digital rights group filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.
"It's clear that official Army websites are the real security problem, not blogs," said EFF staff attorney Marcia Hofmann. "Bloggers, on the whole, have been very careful and conscientious. It's a pretty major disparity."
Related Issues: FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project
Related Cases: FOIA Litigation: Surveillance of Soldier Blogs
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